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Reply #30 posted 05/23/03 3:27pm

mistermaxxx

Nat King Cole Smoked&if that Man didn't have One of the All-Time Greatest Voices than My Ears are Damaged something Awful.anyway Whitney Houston's Biggest Issue as a Artist is that like Mariah Carey She isn't being handled the same Musically as She was back during Her Peak Run.Whitney was always tough&you add Bobby Brown&His Personna there&it triples.but Whitney with the Right Material could be back because She still has a Certain "IT" about Her but Can La Reid find the Hits for Her? that is the 64 thousand&99 Cent Question.
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Reply #31 posted 05/24/03 6:35am

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Yeah if she released some songs from the vault she'd be back where she was...talking "Higher Love","Feels so good","Moment of Truth" etc.
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Reply #32 posted 05/24/03 7:34am

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She's a drug addict. Sad, but true. She only has herself to blame. She should have dropped Bobby "the pipe" Brown years ago. Holla.
All you others say Hell Yea!! woot!
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Reply #33 posted 05/24/03 8:39am

Harlepolis

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Whitney is ghetto fab...always has been and always will be.

I'm still not following harlepolis' answer...I think whitney is still "partying" that's why her voice sounds horrible.


Yes ma'am, its rumored that she's pregnant! and I think its true!
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Reply #34 posted 05/27/03 12:19am

Marmelstein

Once she is on the cover of next month's Crackwhore Magazine, she'll be in the spotlight again.
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Reply #35 posted 05/27/03 4:29am

agentmonday

She hasn't been able 2 hit a note since the Grammys way back...2000 or something...i remember she was all fulll of sweat and sounded like a frog. Such a great vocalist and then she goes and fucks it all up.
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Reply #36 posted 05/27/03 5:34am

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Supernova said:

okaypimpn said:

VinnyM27 said:

okaypimpn said:

It's a result of hot smoke (cancer sticks) on the vocal chords not making a perfect marriage.


Can she get some kind of drug or surgery to fix it. Then again lets just keep her away from all things drug related.


Surgery can't restore your vocal chords. Prime example is her cousin, Dionne Warwick. When Dionne first came out back in the day she sounded a lot like Whitney and could hit those notes, too but since she started smoking, her voice deteriorated over the years. It's a proven fact that smoking "drops" the voice and makes it raspy.

Unfortunately, a lot of R&B vocalists smoke (or have smoked) and if you listen closely you can tell how their voices have changed over the years (D'Angelo-although I don't thinks his has really caught up with him that much yet, but it's getting there, K-Ci Hailey, Mary J. Blige, Tweet, etc.)

I didn't realize surgery could restore your voice after smoking, but you're right about singers who smoke (it doesn't just happen to r&b vocalists though). It was happening to Robert Plant of Led Zep, and Aretha Franklin too. I don't know if either has gone back to smoking.


True, but I don't think Aretha got too caught up in smoking. I know she used to drink, but she's probably one of the few artists who can actually hit the same notes she could back in the day.
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